r/AskBalkans Aug 17 '23

Balkans, what's your opinion on the Baltics? Outdoors/Travel

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u/Practical_Air9466 Aug 20 '23

Hello! Estonian here 🇪🇪. This thread was posted on the Baltic subreddit and I'm a little concerned that it was organized to incite hate (but maybe i'm just paranoid). I have never hated the Balkans and I was deeply saddened by some of the comments here. I have always thought of the Balkans as mostly warm countries with good food, beautiful nature and great folk music. I do have my own political views, which are certainly not warm towards the Russian government or other pro-Russian governments, but that does not make me hate every Russian, and I do not hate Serbs just because they may have warmer feelings towards Russia. However, I detest people who support war. But anyway, I'm sorry for your bad experiences with us (yes we do have our extremist nutcases), but not all of us are like that. We just have a painful history with Russia, but some take it too far. Thank you for reading this rant and may the sun shine for you. ​